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Also, it really depends on the environment, the nature of secrets, etc. It's never great, but the level of badness varies dramatically. If you have a team of 2-3 people, where ever…

>> storing my.cnf in VCS is a better idea than updating it in prod. Eh, 'but we can't store things/API keys/passwords in VCS! It's bad!' is a pet peeve of mine. No, let's not 'just…

I get you, wrong wording, it's not exactly a standard unit test, etc. But it doesn't change the meaning and intention of it - treat infrastructure as you treat code (I guess that a…

My pet peeve with all these time trackers is that... It's just a wrong metric, unless what you're doing is an assembly line equivalent, where you just need to put in the hours. And…

Good to see this. I think that hiring remotely and paying Bay Area salaries (or very close to it) does indeed open up access to talent that might be harder to reach otherwise. Espe…

I've been working remotely from home for the past 7 months, I live in Vilnius, Lithuania (so the local job market is way more limited than in SF, London, etc). I think that it larg…

I've tried both Google and HERE maps when traveling to a number of countries, and found HERE significantly better offline. It was constantly able to detect my exact position and up…

I like iStat for this purpose https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

This whole thing looks rather silly. Like, you either find a decent exchange, expect it to be legit and that includes cooperating with IRS and other parts of the government when ne…

What would be a feasible alternative?

That applies to other kinds of reliability testing too, especially everything that goes through a network. It's easy to handle when something is completely unavailable (i.e. instan…

I don't think that anything new could be said about bitcoins right now, and it's been like that since summer, really. Some people do indeed believe in them, whether for technical r…

> Yeah I'm pretty disappointing in the quality of this article, especially considering its coming from the Economist. The Economist is not really written having crypto enthusiasts …

I guess quite likely? In this scenario, it sounds like the goal of Series C was just to get some, any return. And getting back your initial investment sure sounds better than getti…

Same. Might be a cultural thing or something but I'd absolutely hate the idea of being pinged about work things on personal channels (whatsapp, messenger, etc), especially after wo…

That's pretty much my reaction the first time I went to SF. My first BART experience was 16th and Mission and that left... quite an impression. It's surprising how people get used …

Maybe I'm just unlucky but the vast majority of all 'awesome lists' that I've seen are just massive dumps of links, of extremely varying quality (I mean the links themselves), whic…

Working from home is often touted as a solution to all problems but it's just not that simple, and many people who do actually work remotely will tell you that. Allowing remote wor…

> TransferWise captured the UK Poland corridor and expanded from there. Close! They started with UK Estonia, both co-founders are Estonians. IIRC in the very very early days, the w…

Neat project! I did something similar a couple of years ago in python: https://github.com/gedrap/xs-vm these toy projects are really good to try new things and, you know, just buil…

> GOOG, FB, AMZN A tiny nitpick, but what's with the trend of using stock symbols in non-financial context? GOOGL isn't much shorter than Google, same with AMZN and Amazon. It just…

I'm a monthly bundle subscriber since inception. I don't check the monthly bundles regularly (more like two-three-four times a year), but always find games that I enjoy and wouldn'…

> I locate and bribe/extort your main influencer/s to push your project into the ground (block work, object to everything, whatever) or in my preferred direction How's that any dif…

All is good when it's working well, but when something's not right... well, you really wish that you had that monitoring. The truth is that most load balancing solutions are capabl…

Sure, definitely impossible to put random person's picture and some generated name under it...